This is an analysis of the poem The Winter’s Walk that begins with:
MARK'D--as the hours should be, Fate bids us spend
With one illustrious, or a cherish'd friend-- ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccdd eeffaa ddggaXhh eeeeii aaaaee iiaabbjjggaaXkhhaa XXll hhhhXhdXeeeeaammddiieehh hhii mmeeiimmaaXinnaabbXiiaakkhh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,8,6,6,18,4,24,4,27,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 11010101111 01010010101 1001001101 1101010101 1101010101 0101011111 11010111001 1111010101 1011010101 1101100101 10111101010 11110111110 1001010111 0011010101 1011110101 1101110101 1101111101 11001111101 10010100010 11101101000 1101110101 0011000101 11011010101 0101111101 10011000100 11010010101 1000110101 11010111101 11110011111 01011101001 0111000111 0111010101 1101010101 10110010101 11101010011 01001011100 1101111101 1111010101 0111010101 10001101101 0111110111 1101110101 1001001111 1111011001 10111011101 1001110101 1001011101 1001000101 1001011101 1111010011 1101111001 0111011101 11001010110 1111111101 1111011111 0110011101 01010101110 01011101010 0101110101 0101010001 1111110010 1011001101 10110100101 0111110011 11010011101 0010101101 11010011101 0111110100 0111000101 1001010011 1011011111 10001110101 101010010101 0011001111 11110010101 1001011001 1111010001 0111010101 01110111001 1101011101 11001110111 0011110001 1101010111 1001111111 11111100111 1100010111 101101010010 011100101010 01111011101 1111110101 1101010101 1111011111 1101010101 0101111101 1111011101 1101011101 1111010101 1111010101 1111110101 1011000101 1111110111 11111001001 1101100001 1101000101 1101010101 1011011111 101110011001 1111000101 1011011101 1101111101
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 452
- Average number of words per stanza: 80
- Amount of lines: 110
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and, thy, his are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, not, a, the, of, to are repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of The Winter’s Walk;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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